Summary: Filmmaker Hali Lee thought her own prom was a real let down, yet she continued to be fascinated by the endurance of this quintessentially American coming-of-age ritual. To discover why, she returns to her hometown of Kansas City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PROAnderson, Mary J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lanewood Marketing 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.2 ANDFlanagan, Caitlin.
Summary: Describes the modern transition from girl to woman and discusses the changes that have taken place in the process over the past thirty years while finding that the landmarks through the journey have remained the same.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 FLANeruda, Pablo
Summary: Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that unraveled in a series of essential images that are fundamental to an understanding of his mature work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERAbdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Los Angeles Rams and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ABDFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLERevenson, Jody
Summary: Throughout the making of the eight Harry Potter movies, designers and craftspeople were tasked with creating fabulous chocolate-fantasy feasts, flying brooms, enchanted maps, and much more, in addition to numerous magical items necessary in a wizard everyday life--for example, newspapers with moving photos, vicious textbooks, and Howlers. Harry Potter: The Artifact Vault chronicles the work of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 791.4375 REVRusick, Jessica
Summary: This title provides an overview of atoms and molecules. Text includes a simple overview of atoms and molecules and examines nuclei, protons, neutrons, electrons, shells, bonds, isomers, and polymers. Includes the periodic table. Information is explained using real-world examples and supported with graphics and photos. This book concludes with two simple, kid-friendly experiments. Aligned to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J540 RUSMcCann, John
Summary: Provides step-by-step instructions for completing twenty-five rubber band loom projects, including jewelry, hair accessories, and toys.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 MCCDi Prima, Diane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DI PRIMA, DIANE DIPMeyer, Stephen C.
Summary: "The anticipated third book from New York Times bestselling author and respected Intelligent Design scholar Stephen C. Meyer makes a compelling argument for the existence of God based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 212 MEYKorte, Steven
Summary: "In the 1930s, Warner Brothers studios introduced the world to the Looney Tunes. A witty rabbit named Bugs, a stuttering pig named Porky, and an erratic duck named Daffy are just some of the characters that have left audiences hysterically laughing for almost a century. The animated short films, starring some of the most iconic cartoon characters in history, went on to have a second, long life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020